Progress in Implementing
Keidanren’s Work Style Reform 2017

October 17, 2017
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)What Does Keidanren’s Work Style Reform 2017 Involve?
1. Work Style Reform Action Plans→ Formulation of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and actionplans to be addressed from FY2018
2. Joint Declaration on Rectifying Business Practices that Lead toLong Working Hours
3. Campaign on encouraging workers to take annual leave
4. Information sharing (series of seminars, compilation anddissemination of good practices)1

Joint Declaration on Rectifying Business Practices That Leadto Long Working Hours
 To make further progress in reducing long working hours and therebyreforming work styles, we need to drive forward efforts to overhaul
business practices that are difficult for individual companies to address ontheir own.
 Keidanren collaborated with the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry(JCCI), Keizai Doyukai, the National Federation of Small Business
Associations (NFSBA), and regional and industrial associations to draw up a
joint declaration (released on September 22, 2017). The declaration states thebusiness community’s strong will to rectify such business practices and isintended to promote initiatives to that end among each association’smember companies.
 The declaration is currently endorsed by 112 associations, comprising the 4major business associations, 60 industrial business associations, and 47
regional economic associations.

2Joint Declaration on Rectifying Business Practices That Lead toLong Working Hours
 Summary of the Joint Declaration
1. To comply with relevant laws, regulations, and rules.
2. To avoid ambiguous contract terms.
3. To appropriately change delivery dates when making additional
orders or specification changes.
4. To refrain from unnecessarily specifying date and time ofdelivery which may result in working at night or on holidays.
5. To avoid meetings and phone calls outside the business hours.
6. To conduct business at fair prices that commensurate with thevalue of services provided.

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Information Sharing (Series of Seminars)
 Employer-Worker Symposium on Work Style Reform– Enhancing work-life synergy through the ingenuity of employers and Workers
 Date/time: Sept. 22, 2017 (Fri.); 10:00–12:00
 Venue:Keidanren Hall
 Hosted by: Keidanren, JCCI, Keizai Doyukai, NFSBA & Rengo (JTUC)
 Attendees: Approx. 550
 Program (1) Opening address Rikio Kozu, President, Rengo (JTUC)
Hiroo Unoura, Vice Chair, Keidanren,
Chair of Committee on Labor Legislation(2) Keynote speech Noriyuki Yanagawa, Professor, University of Tokyo“Technological Innovation and Future Work Styles”(3) Case studies
Daiwa House Industry, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa,
Tokyu Corporation, Japanese Electrical Electronic &Information Union

Hiroo Unoura, Vice Chair, Keidanren

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Information Sharing (Series of Seminars)

Future seminars scheduled: Work Style Reform Seminar in Hiroshima Seminar on Prevention of Overwork (Tokyo)
 Work Style Reform Seminar hosted jointly by Kansai Economic Federationand Keidanren (Osaka) Diversity Management Seminars (Tokyo & Osaka)54. Information Sharing (Compilation of Good Practices onWork Style Reform) Published a booklet “Compilation of Good Practices on Work Style Reform”
1. Describes 15 examples of progressive initiatives
facilitating flexible work styles, such as reducing working
hours, encouraging workers to take paid leave, achieving
compatibility of work and child/elderly care, enabling
employees to balance work and health, and offeringteleworking, etc.
2. The booklet could serve as a reference when formulating
the Work Style Reform Action Plans.
Work Style Reform Action Plans(1) Each company to formulate its own voluntaryaction plan for reducing long working hours,
encouraging workers to take annual leave, andfacilitating flexible working styles.
(2) Action plans are scheduled to be made public
on the Keidanren website in April 2018.

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